You’ll find floorplan fascination of a different kind in The Wrong House, Steven Jacob’s obsessional cataloguing of the fictional spaces of Alfred Hitchcock. Observing that the great director made frequent use of tightly contained interiors, Jacobs set out to chronicle his architectural approach, with floorplans and screen grabs that set out the physical relationships within his remarkable sets.
The notoriously location-shy director weaved whole narratives out of enclosed spaces, like the penthouse apartment in 'Rope', or the New York courtyard in 'Rear Window', a $100,000 tour-de-force that was the largest indoor set ever built at Paramount studios.
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The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Jacobs (010 Publishers, 29.50 euros)
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